History 30B, Spring 2000

Science and Society since the Scientific Revolution

Daily outline, Class 6 (2/3/00)

 
Topics 

Science as entertainment
Popularization and popular culture
The Enlightenment
Science and religion on the Enlightenment model

 Names and terms 

Voltaire, Elements of Newtonian philosophy
Algarotti, Newtonianism for the ladies
Encyclopedia
the philosophes
Ecole Polytechnique
enlightened despotism
natural theology
argument from design
 
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